Do you know the definition of the word enmity? It is hostility, animosity, ill-will, and hatred. The Bible begins with God's prediction of enmity between the seed of the serpent, the children of the devil, and the seed of the woman, the children of God (Genesis 3:15). Paul teaches that the carnal mind is at enmity with God and incapable of obedience to God (Romans 8:7). James adds that friendship with this world is enmity with God and that everyone who is a friend of the world is an enemy of God (James 4:4). The Bible even teaches us that the world is at such enmity with Christ that worldly foes will lay down their animosities toward one another in order to join forces against Christ (Luke 23:12). 

I've long believed that the contemporary church is blind to this fallen world’s extreme enmity toward God. Consequently, it is guilty of a great gullibility; namely, that this Christ-hating world can be won to Christ with a better Gospel sales pitch, one which is less offensive to the sinner and more tolerant toward sin. If we will only become more appeasing and make our churches more attractive, then, this fallen world would flood into our churches and fall to its knees before Christ, as its Lord and Savior. After all, sinners are just seekers receptive to the Gospel as long as the Gospel is tactfully presented with the latest Madison Avenue marketing techniques. Yet, the truth of the Scripture flies in the face of such naive notions. For instance, the Bible plainly teaches that "there are none that seek after God" (Romans 3:11). 

Today’s church really has no idea of what it’s up against, which explains its impotence to influence a fallen planet increasingly possessed by the spirit of antichrist. Erroneously believing that the salvation of lost humanity is a simple matter of the power of our persuasion rather than, as the Bible clearly teaches, a miraculous thing that can only be wrought by the miraculous power of a miracle working God, today’s churchgoers spend more time honing their public communication skills than on their knees in earnest prayer.

As a result of being so spiritually snookered, the contemporary church witlessly waves olive branches at antichrists who are dedicated to its extermination. Whether it’s profane progressives, Marxist Black Lives Matter protestors, radical feminists, democratic socialists, a militant LGBTQ+ community, or blasphemous atheists, today’s credulous Christians believe that they can all be converted by being coddled and cuddled.

Legend tells us that Antipas, one of the few Christian martyrs mentioned in the Bible (Revelation 2:13), understood what has eluded most present-day evangelicals. When he was being taken to his execution, his executioner chided him, “Don’t you know that the whole world is against you?” In response, Antipas boldly proclaimed, “And I against the whole world!” By the way, the name “Antipas” actually means “against all.” We must not ever forget, especially in these perilous times of the last days, the words of our Lord, who said, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34).